Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.